Maggie And The Maverick

Maggie And The Maverick
Laurie Grant

You Just Couldn't Count On A Woman That's what Garrick Devlin believed when his wife deserted him after the war. Now he'd been deceived by a woman - again. The man he'd hired for his Texas newspaper had turned out to be a meddlesome female and a Yanker to boot! But her fiery beauty still attracted him, though he knew perfectly well that a woman couldn't be trusted… .Love saw with the heart, not the eyes. And Maggie's heart longed for Garrick Devlin and his young son. But would Garrick ever learn to trust her? Or would a foolish liaison from her past forever destroy their newfound chance at happiness?

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u981ca51c-d32d-54c3-99a1-7cbdab70dea3)

Excerpt (#u2d4451a5-0382-5f6e-a3df-9672ad414258)

Dear Reader (#ud7f4f8d9-aa2b-5160-8786-0d804cd33696)

Title Page (#ub93c9597-21ee-5366-a514-13cca3c66eb2)

Books by Laurie Grant (#uc7c0236c-d486-58cb-a1d8-8675898affbd)

About the Author (#u9b48f6e6-b119-5fec-8bd6-8b07d0d44a0b)

Dedication (#uc936f7a4-2f33-5bb8-bfdb-46650fcb6c32)

Acknowledgment (#ud6db530c-9331-568c-b819-7baf5082de84)

Prologue (#uee839d89-b70d-55e6-b858-6ef4206a7ab4)

Chapter One (#u473e1c86-64f1-5654-b419-a182ff49afe5)

Chapter Two (#u0a163811-7fd7-5ad7-bff7-d27bf2c78b8c)

Chapter Three (#u8bd5758a-8c57-5a5e-a090-3e77b77a0b25)

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“You can’t care for a man who isn’t whole.

“I won’t let you throw yourself away like that.”

Maggie blinked at the vehemence of Garrick’s words.

“You’ve seen me. You’ve seen my leg,” he went on, before she could deny his self-description. “I’ll be blunt, Maggie—can you really bear to think of that in your bed? Because that’s what it would mean, sooner or later, if we go on kissing and touching. I’m not a boy to be fobbed off with a few kisses and caresses in the moonlight, Maggie—I’m a man. And I’ll be damned if I’ll open my heart to another woman who’s going to run screaming from my bed.”

“I’m far from perfect myself, Garrick. And you are not your leg, Garrick. That is a part of you, yes, but when one loves, one loves the whole person. And there is much in you to love….”

Dear Reader,

Entertainment. Escape. Fantasy. These three words describe the heart of Harlequin Historical novels. If you want compelling, emotional stories by some of the best writers in the field, look no further.

Award-winning author and native Texan Laurie Grant has really hit her stride with Maggie and the Maverick, the last of her DEVLIN BROTHERS books. Garrick Devlin mistrusts women—with good reason: his wife left him when he came home wounded from the Civil War and she never told him she was pregnant. Now, trying to put a life together for his threeyear-old boy, he hires a newsman to help him start a paper. Only, M. L. Harper is really Maggie—a dainty Texas Yankee!—who wins his respect and shows him how to love again.